Lead Python Backend Engineer

PBT Group has an opportunity for a Lead Python Backend Engineer who will be responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

Duties:

• Create solutions based on requirements provided by the product owner.
• Thrive in an agile work environment.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions and demonstrate or present them effectively.
• Ensure the server's stability, striving for zero downtime.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to grasp end-user needs, formulate use cases, and translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Craft tools and applications by writing clean, efficient code.
• Automate tasks using appropriate tools and scripting.
• Review and troubleshoot code to maintain its quality.
• Design software solutions through a comprehensive understanding of information requirements, user consultations, system flows, data usage, and workflow analysis, following established software development practices.
• Evaluate the operational feasibility of proposed solutions by analyzing problems, requirements, and development progress.
• Act as a mentor for junior engineers, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Collaborate within the team to brainstorm and innovate, contributing to the creation of new products.
• Proficiently use agile tools like JIRA to report on work progress.
• Elaborate on and document work in Confluence.
• Exhibit strong communication skills and proactive problem-solving abilities.

Skills and Experience

Required:

• AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DB
• AWS API Gateway
• Terraform
• Python 3.9
• Pytest
• Knowledge of Rest API integrations
• Openapi, swagger
• Git Hub actions for CI CD
• Docker and Docker compose
• Makefile
• Apache velocity language
• Proven experience as a Back-end developer
• Experience in the banking sector collaborating with business teams to achieve outcomes

Qualifications/ Certification:

• A degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Business Administration / Commerce or equivalent

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